Re: Difference between C#'s "new" keyword and VB.NET's "shadows" keyword

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From: Frans Bouma [C# MVP] (perseus.usenetNOSPAM_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 10:49:32 -0700

Dot net work wrote:

> I need VB.NET's "shadows" functionality inside a C# project.
>
> I tried the "new" keyword, but it didn't seem to work, because my
> particular function does in fact differ in signature to the function
> that is being hidden in the base class.
>
> In VB.NET, the shadows keyword hides all the inherited functions,
> regardless of signature.
>
> I need this functionality in C#.
>
> I'm sure there's an easy way around this, but I am a VB.NET
> programmer, and not a C# programmer.

        Even though shadows seems to hide it, it isn't hidden. Everyone can reach
the base class methods through reflection.

                FB 

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